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Author : W. F. Paton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Ambryn (Lonwolwol) Grammar written by W. F. Paton and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kilu von Prince
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110766310
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book A Grammar of Daakaka written by Kilu von Prince and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference grammar is the first description of the endangered Oceanic language Daakaka. This language is spoken by about 1000 speakers on the island of Ambrym, Vanuatu. The data on which the analysis is based were collected by the author during a documentation project between 2009 and 2012. All structural levels of the language are discussed, including discussions of reduplication patterns and orthography design, nominal and verbal subclasses, clause types and information structure and the different types of subordinate clauses. Particular emphasis is given to the intricate system of nominal possession, the system of TAM- and polarity markers and serial verb constructions. Literary genres of the region and related art forms such as songs and the symbolic sand drawings are discussed in the final chapter. The grammar will be especially relevant to readers with an interest in Oceanic languages, general typology and theoretical linguistics as well as those with a broader interest in the region.
Author : Arthur Capell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780858830516
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Some Grammatical Comparisons of the Finisterre-Huon Languages, New Guinea written by Arthur Capell and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bernd Heine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192699326
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)
Download or read book The Grammar of Interactives written by Bernd Heine and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores a domain of discourse processing referred to as 'interactive grammar', based on an analysis of grammatical descriptions of over 100 languages spoken across the world. While much previous work has treated interactive grammar as a fairly marginal part of language, Bernd Heine describes it here as a distinct category that contrasts with sentence grammar both in its functions and its structural behavior. He identifies ten types of interactives - i.e. extra-clausal expressions of linguistic discourse: attention signals, directives, discourse markers, evaluatives, ideophones, interjections, response elicitors, response signals, social formulae, and vocatives. The analysis reveals that speakers make use of two contrasting modes for structuring their discourses, both of which are needed for successful communication: one is sentence grammar, which has a propositional format and analytic organization; the other is interactive grammar, which has a holophrastic organization and a focus on social communication. While the argument structure of sentence grammar is shaped by the propositional format of sentences, that of interactive grammar is shaped by the indexical nature of the situation of discourse. This distinction shows interesting correlations both with findings from neurolinguistic studies on differential activity in the two hemispheres of the human brain, and with observations from social psychology on the differences between systems of reasoning and judgment.
Author : W. F. Paton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780858830806
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Tales of Ambrym written by W. F. Paton and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Darrell T. Tryon
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110884011
Total Pages : 3564 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Comparative Austronesian Dictionary written by Darrell T. Tryon and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 3564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes in the Trends in Linguistics. Documentation series focus on the presentation of linguistic data. The series addresses the sustained interest in linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, grammars and editions of under-described and hitherto undocumented languages. All world-regions and time periods are represented.
Author : Peter Kahrel
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027229198
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Typological Studies in Negation written by Peter Kahrel and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of articles offers descriptions of the negation system in 16 languages. As not much is known about negation systems in non-European languages, the first aim of the volume is to provide data on various aspects on negation; for all articles these data were collected on the basis of the same questionnaire.Most work on this subject deals with syntactic aspects of negation; this volume attempts to include pragmatic and semantic issues as well, such as the expression of negative indefinites, interaction of negation and quantifiers, the scope of negation, and the choice of a particular form of negation in cases where there are several ways to express this.For a number of less-known languages descriptions offering a wealth of data are presented here, and in the articles about well-studied languages, new data and analyses of more complicated issues are provided.
Author : Elena Filimonova
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027229748
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Clusivity written by Elena Filimonova and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a collection of papers on clusivity, a newly coined term for the inclusiveexclusive distinction. Clusivity is a widespread feature familiar from descriptive grammars and frequently figuring in typological schemes and diachronic scenarios. However, no comprehensive exploration of it has been available so far. This book is intended to make the first step towards a better understanding of the inclusiveexclusive opposition, by documenting the current linguistic knowledge on the topic. The issues discussed include the categorial and paradigmatic status of the opposition, its geographical distribution, realization in free vs bound pronouns, inclusive imperatives, clusivity in the 2nd person, honorific uses of the distinction, etc. These case studies are complemented by the analysis of the opposition in American Sign Language as opposed to spoken languages. In-depth areal and family surveys of clusivity consider this opposition in Austronesian, Tibeto-Burman, central-western South American, Turkic languages, and in Mosetenan and Shuswap.
Author : John Lynch
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0700711287
Total Pages : 942 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Oceanic Languages written by John Lynch and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume contains five background chapters: The Oceanic Languages, Sociolinguistic Background, Typological Overview, Proto-Oceanic and Internal Subgrouping. Part of 2 vol set. Author Ross from ANU.
Author : W. F. Paton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Customs of Ambrym written by W. F. Paton and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Cysouw
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191564990
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book The Paradigmatic Structure of Person Marking written by Michael Cysouw and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-01-29 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores person markers, the linguistic elements that provide points of reference to speech-act participants. Michael Cysouw develops a new framework for the typology of person marking based on the rejection of the notion of plurality for its analysis. When a mother says "Mummy is going to say goodnight now", Mummy is the person marker in a way that in English is confined to motherese but which is used more commonly in some other languages and may also be characteristic of much earlier forms. Dr Cysouw divides the person markers of 400 languages into paradigms. He considers how the structure of these person paradigms relates to their function. His investigation provides a clear account of how person markers work syntactically, pragmatically, and semantically as well as giving fresh insights into aspects of linguistic change, language-relatedness, and the interfaces between discourse, syntax, and semantics. The combination of a typological and a comparative approach results in the first outline of a cognitive map of the paradigmatic structure of person marking.
Author : R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199571090
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Basic Linguistic Theory Volume 3 written by R. M. W. Dixon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-24 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R.M.W. Dixon provides a comprehensive guide to the nature of human languages and their description and analysis. The books are a one-stop text for undergraduate and graduate students, the outcome of a lifetime's immersion in every aspect of language.
Author : Center for Applied Linguistics
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Survey of Materials for the Study of the Uncommonly Taught Languages: Pidgins and Creoles (European based) written by Center for Applied Linguistics and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen A. Wurm
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110820773
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book New Guinea and Neighboring Areas written by Stephen A. Wurm and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-11-18 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Contributions to the Sociology of Language series features publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It addresses the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches - theoretical and empirical - supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of scholars interested in language in society from a broad range of disciplines - anthropology, education, history, linguistics, political science, and sociology. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher.
Author : Claude Hagège
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199575002
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Adpositions written by Claude Hagège and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adpositions lie at the core of the grammar of most languages, their usefulness making them recurrent in everyday speech and writing. Based on an analysis of 350 languages, this pioneering study examines their morphological features, syntactic functions, and semantic and cognitive properties.
Author : Thomas Reuter
Publisher : ANU E Press
ISBN 13 : 192094270X
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Sharing the Earth, Dividing the Land written by Thomas Reuter and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers is the fifth in a series of volumes on the work of the Comparative Austronesian Project. Reflecting the unique experience of fourteen ethnographers in as many different societies, the papers in this volume explore how people in the Austronesian-speaking societies of the Asia-Pacific have traditionally constructed their relationship to land and specific territories. Focused on the nexus of local and global processes, the volume offers fresh perspectives to current debate in social theory on the conflicting human tendencies of mobility and emplacement.
Author : Dunstan Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199604320
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Canonical Morphology and Syntax written by Dunstan Brown and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to present Canonical Typology, a framework for comparing constructions and categories across languages. The canonical method takes the criteria used to define particular categories or phenomena (eg negation, finiteness, possession) to create a multidimensional space in which language-specific instances can be placed. In this way, the issue of fit becomes a matter of greater or lesser proximity to a canonical ideal. Drawing on the expertise of world class scholars in the field, the book addresses the issue of cross-linguistic comparability, illustrates the range of areas - from morphosyntactic features to reported speech - to which linguists are currently applying this methodology, and explores to what degree the approach succeeds in discovering the elusive canon of linguistic phenomena.
